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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Whom I despise Part Uno

Hello all, I guess for my first post I need to state that I intensely despise referee's, umpires, line judges, zebras whatever you want to call them, I despise them all. For the sake of this post I'm going to refer to them as refs. Tonight while watching a brief, and I do mean brief stint of the NLCS I saw Albert Pujols strike out all because some stupid ref wanted to extend the strike zone to about the dirt. Words can't express to you how much I despise the Cardinals, but I also hate seeing the game not being called fairly. I'll date back to a play that we all can recall, at least all Michigan fans can recall. It's the National Championship game, in overtime, Ohio State needs a touchdown to win the game and it's fourth down. There is a mystery pass interference call and the stinking Buckeyes win the National Title having 7 opportunities to win the game, ridiculous!

I guess this most recent outrage of mine comes in seeing the second half of the Bears vs. Cardinals game Monday night. There was a punt in the second half that was kicked from the near hash mark (the left side of the field) where it lands at most one foot out of bounds at the far right sideline on the 4 and 1/2 yard line. This stupid ref marches his but up to about the 16 yard line! This is physically impossible! It didn't make any difference in the game but as you can see by my memory of it I can't stand refs and I hate it when they have to leave a mark on the game and try to influence the outcome.

Another brief example for you soccer fans. Theirry Henry scores a goal where the goalie and defender are within three feet of him, the referee is out of position and the line judge is about 30 yards away. The ball bounces up and hits him in his stomach and he puts it in the back of the neck. Neither the goalie nor the defender put up there hands as though there had been a violation as would any normal soccer player that just had witnessed a hand ball, but the stinking out of position referee calls him for a hand ball and nullifies the goal, Henry loses the match because of that ridiculous call! What an outrage! Directly after the call is made by the ref Henry asked the goalie if he saw him hand ball it and he chuckles as if to say you got hosed man, the injustices that these refs make are proposterious! They cost a team the game, I propose, they do something like that they should be fired! That's your only purpose out there is to get the call right, if you can't do it you shouldn't be out there!

I'm sure there are plenty more examples that I can think of but I don't want to waste any more of your time. Soon to come, which teams that I like and which teams I despise. Stay tuned folks and thanks for visiting, come back soon!

3 Comments:

At 9:18 AM, Blogger Mark Redfern said...

Barnes - great to see you start the ol' blog. I'll be checking in.

 
At 11:16 AM, Blogger Jeremy R. Edwards said...

I would like to see ref's being punished for poor calls. For example, stand the ref on the 50 yard line, and have Urlacher get a running start, and spear him directly into the ground, while the crowed jeers & and laughs at him. That'll teach'em.

 
At 7:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

While I do understand your "intense" feelings toward refs, I usually don't catch what call should have been made and therefore can't be too upset. I really am just writing to see how this blog thing works.

 

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